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Information and motor constraints shape melodic diversity across cultures
John M McBride, Nahie Kim, Yuri Nishikawa +3
The number of possible melodies is unfathomably large, yet despite this virtually unlimited potential for melodic variation, melodies from different societies can be surprisingly s…
Evolutionary modelling reveals melodic and harmonic constraints on global scale structure
John M McBride, Steven Brown, Elizabeth Phillips +2
Since antiquity, musical scales have been explained by harmony rather than melody. This view relies on the mathematically designed scales of a few traditions, and was never directl…
Statistical Survey of Chemical and Geometric Patterns on Protein Surfaces as a Blueprint for Protein-mimicking Nanoparticles
John M. McBride, Aleksei Koshevarnikov, Marta Siek +2
Despite recent breakthroughs in understanding how protein sequence relates to structure and function, considerably less attention has been paid to the general features of protein s…
Tumbling Downhill along a Given Curve
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Yaroslav I. Sobolev, Tsvi Tlusty
A cylinder will roll down an inclined plane in a straight line. A cone will roll around a circle on that plane and then will stop rolling. We ask the inverse question: For which cu…